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Robert M. Walton

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I am a retired teacher with thirty-six years of service. I'm also a rock climber and mountaineer. I've climbed extensively in Yosemite and the Sierras, but my home crags are in Pinnacles National Park. My writing about climbing has been published in "Ascent" and other mountaineering publications.

I'm an experienced writer. My "Dogwood Dream" won the 2011 New Millennium short fiction competition and two of my stories have been published by the Kids Book Review. My Civil War novel "Dawn Drums" was awarded First Place in the Arizona Authors Association's 2014 literary contest. Judges of the 2014 New Mexico Book Awards gave it the Tony Hillerman Award for best fiction.
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Robert M. Walton I've always got more to say than time to say it in. Writer's block hasn't been a problem for me - knock on wood.…moreI've always got more to say than time to say it in. Writer's block hasn't been a problem for me - knock on wood.(less)
Robert M. Walton "For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

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"For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

I return to these lovers and this play for the wondrous images, images which cast light upon truths beyond our senses. The two young people love without reservation and that love takes them to a higher place, perhaps the highest place of all. I bow to them for it. That their lives ended in tragedy is not their fault or love's. It's the fault of all who did not or would not understand what they'd discovered. Love is the ultimate treasure and we should be its mentors and supporters when we find it - that's the play's lesson for us all.(less)
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I thank Editor Sand Pilarsky for including “Shared Taxi” in this week’s edition of Piker Press. It’s very brief but one of my personal favorites. I had fun thinking and writing about Istanbul and Paris in the same story! https://www.pikerpress.com/article/11812/shared-taxi/

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